And even as indigenous areas are carved out, they are so far removed from those cities they might as well be on Mars.

It would, of course, be the morning of the big meal when I picked up a dog bed and realized it has quite a puddle in the middle of it. Of you know what. [sigh] Covers quick in the washer, foam "memory pads" in the tub to soak in the shampoo I use when bathing the dogs. And I'll squeeze them out enough and move them somewhere else to dry before people start arriving. And mop that spot in the den, again.

At least the friend I've been cat sitting for has decided to come home mid-afternoon today, no dinner run to cut into our dinner. Usually it's three trips a day, but I compressed two this morning. One cat gets a medicine that must be administered an hour before or after meals (when other medications are mixed in). So he gets the first med, then while waiting for time to pass I do some of my exercise videos I can stream on the phone. Win/win. When the fitness app asks what other exercise I've gotten in the past 24 hours I have to choose "Other" since housework and moving bookcases aren't on the list they offer. Case in point: I relocated the shelf with four linear feet of old vinyl albums from the kitchen to the den. Meaning I had to shift all of those albums from that bottom shelf to stacks in the other room and then move the shelf, then put them back on the shelf; there's no moving the shelf with that dead weight. So - picking up vinyl albums 2X counts as a workout!